Jamaicanbaby
CHAPTER 1 Hello my name is Michele but also known as JAMAICANBABY. How did I get that name well my mom & dad were born in Jamaica & at the age of 9 I lived there until I was 16 then I returned to the States, so the name just stuck with me. I have read alot of OH stories and most people have been dealing with the weight problem all of their life, I started with the weight gain after child birth in the 1990's. The weight started slowly gaining then would go down then back up down a little then up, up, up and away.... @ this point the diet pills I thought was the best thing that happened to me, but boy was I wrong I lost alot of weight big time, I was so happy, then it happened they took these pills off the market and I gained back all of the weight plus double. OMG the gym memerships, the pills, the diet programs, the fustration and disappointment & STRESS started to build a friendship with the weight. MISERY LOVES COMPANY..... this is so true, so they both ganged up on me and took me to another level, I was soaring way above the 200's. I had a terrible accident @ work where I was pinned under the hood of jeep and was being dragged as the assembly line kept going, after an MRI it showed that I have 2 herinated disc in the lower back which brings alot of pain, so this slowed down working out a great deal because the pain would shoot down my legs and they would feel like it would give out on me.
Then to add to the back problems my hands would go numb and tingle so bad it would wake me up in the night, so after painful testing sticking needles in my arm they found out I had carpal tunnel syndrome both hands and had the surgery 1 hand at a time which was a 6 week turn around recovery/therapy it was awful no work/working out for 13weeks really hurt me.
CHAPTER 2 Going through life I really didnt pay attention to the little signs, for example I could sleep all day if you let me never to understand that there might really be something wrong with me, so after a referral to have a sleep study done they found out that I have Sleep Apnea, I stop breathing 25 times an hour & snore, and what that does is I dont get a full night rest so if you sleep for 8 hrs you get 8hrs of rest, if I sleep for 8 hrs I might get 3-4 hrs of rest so this can explain all of the sleeping all day episodes, & to help treat this disease I was given a c pap machine to wear over my nose at night while keeping your mouth close the air keeps the airways open & the number of the stop breathing goes down which means you'll get more rest throughout the night.
